Nue: A 2kb Vue Alternative
nuejs.org
nuejs.org
I wasn't happy with the current state of web development, so I decided to write a completely new ecosystem [1] from scratch. I went back to the "good old days", and took advantage of innovations like progressive enhancement, separation of concerns, and semantic web design. The result is a powerful alternative to frameworks like Vue, React, and Svelte as well as toolchains like Vite, Next.js, and Astro.
Nue ecosystem is work-in-progress and today I'm releasing the tiny, but powerful core: Nue JS. It's an extremely small (2.3kb minzipped) JavaScript library for building user interfaces. It's like React or Vue, but there are no hooks, effects, props, or other unusual abstractions on your way. Know the basics of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and you can build server-side components and reactive interfaces with ease.
All projects will be released under the MIT license.
Happy to answer any questions.
1. From intro: https://nuejs.org/docs/nuejs/
2. Playing with the create-nue repo: https://github.com/nuejs/create-nue
3. Understanding the ultimate goal: https://nuejs.org/ecosystem/
However, as a developer, I want to see something else:
1. Example projects created with this library. Challenges, solutions, pains, wins.
2. Video demonstrating how you created simple app with your lib. Reading docs is a too high bar in very crowded JS ecosystem. For example I want to see:
- how tooling works,
- how debugging works,
- how build process works.
- anything else this tool is strong with.
How to use Nue without a build step, like Petite Vue?
Just curious, how do you handle the client side reactivity? Does it use something like virtual dom with diffing or do you compile everything like Svelte (or even some other strategy)?